Clothes-drier.



J. C. MICHAUD.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 24, 1914.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

IN VEN TOR ,d 5 TM dMzb/Zazzd ATTORNEY JOHN C. MICI-IAUID, or SPRINGFIELD, massaoriusnrrs.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

mounts.

- To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN G. MIoHAUD, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Briers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes driers of a class comprising a horizontal arm having means at one end thereof for mounting it whereby it may be revolubly moved, and having a right angularly extended member at its other end carrying a clothes line support, usually composed of radially upwardly and outwardly inclined bars and brace or tie members connected to such bars and to a centralized portion of the support,

The objects of the present invention are to provide improved means for imparting revoluble movements to the arm which carries the clothes line support, which means includes an operating lever which normally occupies a vertical and depending position, whereby it is out of the way and forms no obstruction to the movements of the clothes line support, which, moreover, by reason of its normally depending position will not accumulate moisture, water or ice thereon and which will serve, in addition to the means for imparting revoluble movement to the drier, as a lock to hold the same from being swung except as purposed and wilfully done; to improve and strengthen the construction of the arm which carries the clothes line support andwhich according to my construction is made of metal tubing with inclosed reinforcement bars within the elbowsthereof; to provide improved and simplified formation of the centralized part of the clothes line support which is supported and rotative at and about the lower extremity of the outer depending member of the carrying arm; and to provide means for preventing the clothes line support from rotating relatively to the depending member of the arm when it is not desired that such movement shall transpire.

The invention is described in the accompanying drawings and is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevationofthe drier, a part of the clothes line support of generally well known construction being broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional Specification of Letters Patent. Pa fgntigd Nmv, 251, 1916,

Application filed October 24, 1914.

Serial no. 868,391.

part of the clothes line support engaged, I

therewith and supported thereby..and showing the screw device for the confinement oi the associated parts. Fig. .5 is a horizontal cross section on line 55, Fig. 4.

In the drawings, A represents the hurt, zontal arm by which the clothes line support is carried for a swinging or partially revoluble movement as usual in this class of devices. The horizontal arm has a right angularly bent depending member B at one end for which bearings C and D are provided, in which such member B is rotatively mounted. The lower one D of said bearings has its location adjacent the lower end of the member and it includes a sector shaped plate I) made with a central aperture a through which the extremity of the member is extended with a comparatively close fit. as seen in Fig. 2. The said sector shaped plate has edgewise located teeth I) with regularly distanced spaces therebetween; and it has integrally cast therewith right angular flanges f f for its attachment to a corner post or other available vertical support.

F represents a bracket which is formed as a part thereof with a collar or sleeve-like hub g secured by set screws h to the lower portion of the depending member B, and has bearing support on the top of the sector plate D.

The bracket proper, made in the form of a radial arm extends across the top beyond the edge of the plate,it has a socket z in its under side, and it has its extremity j beyond the edge of the tooth plate downturned and terminating below the level of such plate.

G represents a lever which near its upper end portion is by pivot It hung to the extremity j of the bracket below the tooth plate, and ithas an angular extremity m, inwardly and upwardly extended to engage when such lever is in its normal down-hanging position, not only between the teeth of such plate but also in said downwardly opening socket 2' in the bracket above the plate. This capability of the lever engagement not only with the teeth but with the bracket distributes the strain between the lever toothed plate and bracket, greatly adding to the stability and durability of the device.

When the lever G is swung from its depending position represented by full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, to its approximately horizontal position represented by the dotted lines, its extremity m is brought entirely below both the socketed portion of the bracket and the toothed sector plate so that through the lever G as a handle the arm may be revolubly swung so that the drier will be positioned outwardly beyond its support or swung to a plane more or less closely thereto.

The horizontal arm has at its outer end a second depending member H about the lower portion of which the clothes line support is sustained.

The clothes line support comprises a cen tral sleeve 0 having ears 0 to which the radial bars B are connected,the said radial bars being upwardly and outwardly inclined, and they are rigidly sustained by the ties or brace bars B connected thereto and to the ear pieces 0 with which the sleeve is provided.

The sleeve 0 for the support of the clothes lineframe rests on the outwardly extending flange 7? of a plug fitted in the lower tubular end portion of the depending member. Said lower end portion of the tubular member and the plug are formed with transverse perforations s, 8 in engagement through which a securing pin 6 is passed. Said plug at its flanged lower end is axially drilled and tapped, receiving therein a set screw t which prevents looseness or displacement of the said plug.

Of course, for assemblage of the parts or for their dis-assemblage, the set screw may be loosened, the sleeve 0 slid up on the member 7L, and the plug and the securing pin 6' driven out, or vice versa.

The sleeve 0 of the clothes line support is made with a lateral boss it having a tapped and threaded hole a in which the threaded end of a shaft '0 is screw engaged,said shaft having a handle '0 for conveniently turning it whereby to have its inner end in binding engagement against the depending member H or loosened therefrom to permit or prevent, either as desired, the free rotary movement of the clothes line support relatively to its carrying arm.

The arm A having the depending members B and H is formed of a single length of metal tubing, and the integral elbows to at the junction of the arm proper and the depending members are formed on quadrantal curves; and such elbows have therein solid reinforcing similarly curved metallic core bars 2 ways and means for the bending of the tubing and the relnforcing bars having been devised by me,the same, however, forming no part of the present invention.

The three membered arm which serves as the support for the clothes line frame may be advantageously made with metal tubing of comparatively light gage, the same being, nevertheless, adequate for the resistance of all strains and weights imposed thereon and carried thereby especially by reason of the provision of the elbow reinforcements just described.

In addition to the operative efliciency and susceptibility for convenient use of the clothes drier here described and shown, the drier is one of good durability, inexpensive of manufacture and most easy to mount or dismantle.

1. A rotating member, means including a toothed plate for rotatably supporting the member, a bracket adapted for fixed relationwith the member, said bracket overlying the plate, supporting means carried by the bracket and depending belowthe plate, a lever pivoted to said supporting means below the plate, said lever normally depending from the bracket under the influence of gravity, said lever being formed with an offset extremity to engage the toothed plate when the lever is in normal position. 7

2. A rotating member, means including a toothed plate for rotatably supporting the member, a bracket adapted for fixed relation with the member, said bracket overlying the plate, supporting means carried by the bracket and depending below the plate, a lever pivoted to said supporting means below the plate, said lever normally depending from the bracket under the influence of gravity, said lever being formed with an offset extremity to engage the toothed plate when the lever is in normal position, the support of the lever in said means causing the lever extremity to pass through and below the toothed plate with respect to the bracket in the movement of the lever to operative position, whereby in the operation of the member through the use of the lever the bracket and lever are disposed on opposite sides of the toothed plate.

3. A clothes drier including an upright, means for supporting the same, a sleeve loosely encircling the upright, a plug fitted within the lower end of the upright and having an annular projecting edge to extend beyond the outer surface of the upright when the plug is in place to provide a support for the sleeve, and means engaging the upright and plug and concealed by the sleeve to secure the plug in position on the upright.

4. A clothes drier including a hollow upright, means for supporting said upright from above, a sleeve loosely encircling the and means for securing the sleeve in fixed 10 upright, clothes supporting members carried position to the upright.

by the sleeve, a plug fitting the lower end Signed by me at Springfield, Mass. in

of the upright, and presfenting a flange propresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

jectin beyond the sur ace of the upright to sugport the sleeve, and a pin passing JOHN MIGHAUD' through the plug and upright to secure the WVitnesses:

plug in place, said sleeve overlying and G. R. DRIsooLL,

preventing accidental movement of the pin, M. S. BELLoWs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

